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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 18, 1897)
is if.- r fa G-1 &-.: &' Rv sk; fe- L t- ., fc &T- fjijk VOL 12 SO, 13 ESTABLISHED IN 138C, "r .. I $ v PRICE FIVE CENTS 4 f , - -.4 LINCOLN, NEB., SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 18. 1807 - "StJTtNSC st- m JiXTEEED IN THE FOSTOFFICE AT LINCOLN AS hECOND CLASS MATTER. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BT THE COURIER PRINTING AND PUBLISHING GO Office 1132 X street, Up Stairs. Telephone 384. SARAH '. HARRIS. DORA BAUHELLER Editor ' Business Manager Subscription Rates In Advance. Per annum 52 00 Six months 1 00 Three months 50 One month 20 Single copies 05 voices of good society, because it in sisted that good society was bad in marrying cloister bred maidens to profligate ieers. Mrs. Ward's look was not much talked about in that set from which her characters were drawn. Hut every one of them read it, and if the discussion it called in duced only one pair to refuse to give thcirdaughter in marriage to a titled profligate, the book was well worth while. There arecriticsof The Cour ier who insist that its function is to record the doings of society and clubs without comment or criticism. These critics say that society is annoyed and shocked by references to scenes like that around the pallet of Laura Clarke in the station house, commented upon n these columnsthree weeks ago. They say that criticism of the mayoral tol erance of gambling is out of place in a society aper -and they are right. They say that the waterqucstion is in the hands of fourteen devoted citi zens who are giving their time and thought togettinggood water for the city, and that newspaiier criticism gathers up thoeventsof a week in so ciety, in city keeping and cleaning, in the drama and in music and litera ture. Proscriled by the law from casting a vote, the publisher of The Courier represents a large and in creasing number of women who pay taxes, or who are raising sons whose good or evil life will be largely deter mined by the kind of city the mayor and council are mak ing of Lincoln. Proscribed by a law which classes or declas-.es women with Indians, the insane and idiots, the publisher of TiikCoimmku is not bound by party loyalty from the honest expression of the only opinion K)5Sible to an unprejudiced reader of the records of the city council, to :u observerof the felonies which the ity and county authorities do not punish and suppress and to a witness of the abuses practised by a hruril jiolice. The comfort of most of the si:'scril ers to Tiik CoriciKi: depends dirtctly tiixm the integrity and business ability of the mayor and council. The president and congress only re- PROF. NICHOLSON'S ANALYSIS. South street -t2 Brains. nRCPDVATinNS K street.- "Jj sraina. I Rico street 1-2 grain. Mrs. Humphrey Ward's book "The Heavenly Twins.' is remarkable for many things, not the least of which is its title. "Why the book should be the namesake of ces enfants terrible. who are merely the comedy motif of this protest, against the ethics of society is as mysterious as theall-fciui-niiie habit of putting the important trt of a letter in the postscript. Hut there are so many books, and "The Heavenly Twins" excites the curiosity of a public which needs to be provoked into buying and reading by a if extra bait. So Mrs. Ward named her book to distinguish it from the thousands of other books published the same year, after accessories to the plot and stars as the madonnas of the old masters are named from a chair, a candle, a book, a scarf, or some minor projicrty almost hidden by the draper ies of the mother and the dazzling rays from the son, in order to identify Raphael's madonna of one ieriod and locality from a Correggio or Paul Ver onese. That Mrs. Ward's device was successful the sale of her book is suffic ient evidence. But the reason for its publication, aside from literary ambition and ability, was a desire to protest against the injustice of judg ing men and women by different codes. Because it broke in upon the low The above diagram represents the exact proportions of salt found in one 9 gallon of water from each of the three wells. As a basis for measurement the ,; printer has substituted ems for grains and reduced to one-third. (i JS5 only impedes a progress which is as impetuous as that of the frozen river called a glacier, which precipitates three feet (or thereabouts) of its vol ume into the ocean every year. The simile is a good one. The glacial in difference of the council to thedes Ierate needs of the poor in the city was exasperating Iefore The Courier began to print a weekly resume of the actions of the council on the water question. The well-to-do melt the ar tificial ice. which is made of distilled water, and in consequence their in ternal plumbing is kept in repair, while the household pipes are de stroyed. The day laborers are forced to take the liquid that the city fur nishes them. It is wet but it creates a thirst instead of quenching it. Jf Squire Wolfenbarger would interest the members of the prohibition party in the city water question he might prevent more cases of drunkenness than his pledges can cure in a decade. Vet municipal politics are no concern of a society japer, say the critics. True. The Courier is not exclusively and specifically a society paper. It motely and sentimentally concern the citizens of Lincoln. If the city gov ernment is good the central govern ment can do its worst and only ora torically interfere with the liberty of the citizen of Lincoln. The mavor's hand turns the faucet which lets either a poisonous or life restoring stream into the city mains. It is uu character and principles our comfort and life dcjiends upen. rather than upon the president-. For this rea-cu the mayor's officeslu ulcl he exalted and only the lest and wisest f citizen should fill it. For upon hi- pn.bity and ability the health and happinr--of 110.000 citizens depend. In the present regime any old politician who can secure thesupport of Hud Lind-ey and D. G. Courtney is reasonably sure of thesupport of the voters of the city which has been so republican that the manipulators only need to consult their own private ends in nominating a candidate for the mayorality. The majority of voters are incorruptible by money but they are blinded by a party allegiance which has brought the city into such a condition that gamblers buy it and the only healthy location for the city water is iuiHi.-si-ble because a ring opMi-cs it and a private water company wants the franchise for fifty years. For the-c reason- Tiik CoriciKi: devote- its agc- to city rather 'than to national a flairs. There i- another rea-ou. loiters all over the country elucidate or darken the currency sys tem, the laritT and international and foreign atTairs every twelve hours, moruini; and evening. Hut no other paper in the country di.-cus.se- the morale of the city of Lincoln without jKirty prejudice or fear of losing at H.nage. There i- no other paer in a jH'.sition to know the motives which actuate the city officials and which Is free todiscu.-s them. The very dis franchisement of the publisher con tributes to the freedom from obliga tion and clears the atmosphere from the jiersonal and myopic obstacle- to seeing tilings whole, which afflicts the ordinary publisher Therefore b virtue of its isolation Tiik I'oi'uiki: can and will expre-s the communal rights of the people as opjKised to political rings and outside companies. There is no other paper in the country which di-ctives the atTairs of the city of 'Lincoln from such a xiint of view and the affair of the city of Lincoln are of more con sequence i the citizen of Lincoln he he ever so cosmopolitan, than the affairs of all the rest .f the world.- A visit to the Fstreet, South street. A street and Kice wells will convince any one who thinks he understands the water question that the subject Is underground ami that the only safe knowledge is that gained from exeri ence. We know from Prof.XiehoIsoifs analyslstgiven in the Kendall & Smith, ca-e. that the South street well con tains .-, grains of -olid matter to the gallon, of which 02 grains is common -alt. The Fstreet well ha- only 40 grains ef m lid matter of which 2-" grain- are salt, the Hice well contains H grain- of .-olid matter of which J a grain i-'Yoimuon -alt. On this page i a diagram illustrating the height of the -alt in three little phials: Pn.f. Nicholson i- a chemi-t whose analy-is is to be relied iikiii. It was pre-ented under oath in the Kendall & Smith ca-e ami is uuimieachahle. The -econd le on of experience is the taste of the water from the F street and South street wells. The third le on is the effect-of that water on all egetation. especially blue grass the fourth le--ou of experience is the presence of alkali and salt on top of the ground in the Salt creek valley which, in many places, is encrusted with salt crystals, showing that salt tcuter do me and that the water of a II
